There is No Such Thing As A Reasonable "Gun Control" Law

By Richard W. Stevens, Esq.

Playing on public fear of school violence, the anti-gun
lobby renewed its push for so-called reasonable "gun
control" laws. Many politicians, gun rights groups and firearms
industry magazine editors, who should know better, now seem too
scared to fight against wrong-headed and unconstitutional laws,
just because the enemies of liberty dub those laws reasonable.

The same terror paralyzes most "pro-gun" organizations.
These organizations do not work to reverse the vast majority of
existing "gun control" laws. For example, when have you heard
the NRA call for repealing the Nazi-patterned Gun Control Act of
1968? Why don’t these organizations stand up against what the
media and anti-gun lobbyists call reasonable laws?

There is no such thing as a reasonable "gun
control" law. Here is why:

Gun prohibitionists want to eliminate all handguns from
civilian ownership. Most of them, like K-Mart’s professional
talker Rosie O’Donnell, would ban all civilian ownership of
firearms entirely. They care nothing about the suffering of the
victims of "gun control." Their "gun control" strategy is to win
a little at a time and concede nothing.

All "gun control" laws aim in one direction: to discourage
private ownership and use of firearms. All "gun control" laws
make owning and using guns more

difficult or inconvenient,

expensive,

embarrassing, and

subject to legal liability.

Every "gun control" law achieves one or more of these
purposes. The "gun control" agenda wins with each new so-called
reasonable restriction. When cost, inconvenience, embarrassment
or potential liability increase, then fewer people take an
interest in firearms. Those who already have firearms are
discouraged from keeping or using them.

The "gun control" agenda advances by making firearms
ownership and use become less popular. As the popularity drops,
the number of voters who oppose gun prohibition will drop.
Soon, the pro-gun constituency will be unimportant to
politicians and judges. On that day your right to keep and bear
arms will be legally dead.

Achieving that goal is the anti-gun lobby’s mission. Else,
why doesn’t the anti-gun lobby ever try to repeal a "gun control"
law that has proven useless against criminals? Because those
laws do their intended job: discouraging law-abiding private
citizens from owning guns.

Two deranged killers violated dozens of "gun control" and
criminal laws when they blasted into Columbine High School. None
of the laws deterred the suicidal murderers. Everybody knows
this fact. Everybody knows also that federal laws requiring
trigger locks, waiting periods, and gun show buyer background
checks, would have done nothing to prevent the Columbine
killings. These laws won’t stop future suicidal murderers
either.

The new "gun control" laws won’t reduce crime, but they will
advance the gun prohibition agenda. The new laws will increase
the costs and hassle of buying and using firearms, whether for
sport, militia training or self-defense. When the federal
government "must act to control firearms," the public starts
thinking that there must be something "wrong" with firearms and
private firearms users. More laws force gun dealers and owners to
struggle to avoid warrantless inspections, potential criminal
charges, and civil lawsuits. For the average citizen, buying,
selling, owning and using a gun become expensive, embarrassing
and legally risky activities -- and not worth the trouble.

The ideas of harmony, abundance and self-government,
enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, depend upon an
armed citizenry to protect them. Twentieth Century history has
irrefutably proved that mega-death and destruction rain down on
peoples who have let their governments disarm them. America,
too, must outlive its own sordid history of slavery and
oppression of a people disarmed.

"Gun control" kills ... and it is not a reasonable killer. Join
with us at JPFO to destroy all "gun control" laws. Learn how to
take back our unalienable rights as free people. Call JPFO at (800) 869-1884
or visit www.jpfo.org. Act now!